Why I think Harry Potter is more than a whodunnit (my opinion)

[Kelly Molinari]

No: HPFGUIDX 153215

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Randy" <estesrandy at ...> wrote:
>
> This scene represents my opinions about the hidden lessons being 
> taught to Harry Potter and the rest of us.
> <snip of Harry thinking about how to defeat Voldemort>
> Dumbledore looks at Harry and begins to speak.  "Harry, your power 
> of Love can help you defeat Voldemort!"
> 
> Harry replies, "What do I know about Love?"
 
> Dumbledore replies "We have been teaching you about Love all along.  
> Everyone you have met has been teaching you something about love.  
> Some teach by their acts of love, and others teach by doing the 
> exact opposite.  It's all about our choices."
> <long snip of  "the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians" as
relating to the HP series>


Kelly replies:

Please forgive the lateness of this reply, as I have been busy with
the truly mundane aspects of life, unable to read e-mail.

Well done!

I first started reading (reluctantly, I might add) the HP series in
July 2005, while my kids were fighting over book 6. They insisted that
I read them. It took me about 3 weeks to read book one, only because I
had many (negative) pre-conceived notions of what the books were
really about. By the time I finished I was hooked and had the entire
series done by the time school started in September. I told anyone and
everyone who would listen that they must read the Harry Potter series,
that it was so much more than a "kids thing". I told them that it was
a story of friendship and truth, joy and sorrow, prejudice, pain, love
and sacrifice. It was everything that we face each and every day. If
there is anything that I have learned from these books it is that no
matter how bad things get "... Love is all you need..."

How grateful I am to have been able to experience it.

Kelly, who does not want to appear sappy, but at the same time knows
she is.